I love Rambo products and I cannot lie...

Many years ago, I splurged and bought a fancy quarter sheet...

My horse looks super good in it.

This year it will be 5 years old. It's one of my oldest and most used pieces of equipment. It's outlasted three saddles, two bridles, and one change of discipline, but it still looks brand new. It hasn't shrunk in the wash, or pilled up, or faded. It still is the brightest thing on winter road hacks, screaming "CAUTION" at passing cars.

"What is dis? We don't do dis any more."

 Unlike other quarter sheets I've used, this one actually fits my horse. It doesn't flap around, and very rarely slips. Best of all? Its thick double-bonded fleece actually works as a cooler, meaning I don't have to remove it when the work starts to heat up. It actually works to wick the moisture off my horse, keeping him dry underneath. It's like a pre-cooler.

Looked good on the first ride...

Still looking good years later...

The longevity and quality of this product alone led me to do something rather stupid this winter... I splurged and bought a fancy blanket.

You see, Pig is King and Destroyer of All The Blankets. He tries to pull them off over his head, grasping them at the trim around his leg and ripping them up and over. Leg straps keep the blanket on most of the time, but he usually ends up annihilating the trim and ripping the blankets at the gussets. He's also turned out on 30 acres of mostly woods. You can imagine how that goes...

Yep. Something like this... (SmartBlue Thinsulate on left. Amigo Mio on right.)

Honestly. At the start of this winter season, the thought of stitching together another destroyed blanket was really starting to get to me. So, I packaged up the destroyed Mio (take it back Horseware!) and sent it back as part of the Rambo Blanket Trade-in program. Smartpak made the whole thing nice and easy, and I even got a deal on my Rambo purchase.

So what did I get? A Rambo Wug medium-weight, and I'm so glad I did.

Perfect fit, right out of the box.

First of all, it fits perfectly. Unlike every other blanket I've tried, the Rambo looked like it was made for my horse. It fits even better than the Dover Northwind (which I also love!).

Sorry for my intruding finger ... and my horse's insanely huge head.

The high neck perfectly clears his withers, without creating rubs in his mane or pressure points on his shoulders. Finally!

So comfortable. Such derp.

Guinness seems to like it, too. He tugs on it less than his other blankets, meaning its trim has held out longer than the others. Maybe that's construction, and maybe it's being treated better. I don't know.

Chronic blanket-abuser right there...

I wanted to wait to write up my review of this blanket until it had seen some true war time. At this point, it's been through over 4 full months of total abuse. Except for it being filthy, I have only two minor complaints.

1. First, the tail cord broke. The original was about 10x too long, and I'm pretty sure it just got caught on something and snapped. That's an easy fix. Rambo sells replacements in all different sizes. Easy. Or, you could be cheap like me and just tie the cord back in place. That totally works too. For $0. 
2. The front velcro doesn't seem to want to stick quite as well as when it was brand new. If I took a wire brush to it, it probably would be better. Or, I dunno. Washed the thing. (Who does that?)

If this blanket continues to hold up like it has, I'm totally sold on Rambo products. Well, more sold than I already was.

Now, if only I could win the lottery. I've been drooling over the Newmarket double bonded cooler for years. If it works anything like my quarter sheet, it's worth the large amount of money I'd have to shell out for it. Still, I'm cheap. So if you see a sale on Rambo coolers, you know who to call.

Any of you have an absurd Rambo love affair?